NAME

4 Written questions
1.

Foreign Service Premium

INCORRECT: You gave no answer
ANSWER: Financial payments over and above regular base pay, typically ranging between 10% and 30% of
base pay

2.

Virtual Teams
INCORRECT: You gave no answer
ANSWER: Groups of geographically dispersed coworkers who interact using a combination of
telecommunications and information technologies to accomplish an organizational task

3.

Citizens of a country other than the parent or the host country

INCORRECT: You gave no answer
ANSWER: Third-country nationals

4.

Adaptability screening
INCORRECT: You gave no answer
ANSWER: A process that aims to assess the assignees' (and spouses') probable success in handling a foreign
transfer

4 Multiple choice questions

1.

Geocentric

(No Answer)
a. The notion that home-country attitudes, management style, knowledge, evaluation criteria, and
managers are superior to anything the host country has to offer
b. CORRECT: The belief that the firm's whole management staff must be scoured on a global basis, on the
assumption that the best manager of a specific position anywhere may be in any of the countries in
which the firm operates
c. Employees have the legal right to a voice in setting company policies
d. A conscious belief that only the host-country managers can ever really understand the culture and
behavior of the host-country market

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Citizens of the country in which the multinational company has its headquarters

(No Answer)
a. Geocentric
b. Codetermination
c. CORRECT: Home-country nationals
d. Third-country nationals

3.

Ethnocentric

(No Answer)
a. The belief that the firm's whole management staff must be scoured on a global basis, on the assumption
that the best manager of a specific position anywhere may be in any of the countries in which the firm
operates
b. Noncitizens of the countries in which employees are working
c. CORRECT: The notion that home-country attitudes, management style, knowledge, evaluation criteria,
and managers are superior to anything the host country has to offer
d. Citizens of a country other than the parent or the host country

4.

Hardship allowances

(No Answer)
a. The notion that home-country attitudes, management style, knowledge, evaluation criteria, and
managers are superior to anything the host country has to offer
b. Noncitizens of the countries in which employees are working
c. CORRECT: Payments that compensate expatriates for exceptionally hard living and working conditions at
certain locations
d. Employees have the legal right to a voice in setting company policies

4 True/False questions
1.

Codetermination A conscious belief that only the host-country managers can ever really understand the
culture and behavior of the host-country market
This is false. You gave no answer.
It should be Codetermination Employees have the legal right to a voice in setting company policies.

2.

A conscious belief that only the host-country managers can ever really understand the culture and behavior
of the host-country market Polycentric
This is true. You gave no answer.

3.

Noncitizens of the countries in which employees are working Expatriates (expats)

This is true. You gave no answer.

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Mobility Premiums A process that aims to assess the assignees' (and spouses') probable success in
handling a foreign transfer
This is false. You gave no answer.
It should be Mobility Premiums Typically, lump-sum payments to reward employees for moving from one
assignment to another.

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